Entry tags:
- absolutely scrumtrulescent!,
- apocalypse wow!,
- damn the man!,
- dead of the affluenza,
- eljaeity,
- endangered bovine syndrome,
- glorious streisandfreude,
- goldfish says what?,
- hello snowflake!,
- holler fish,
- i'll use small words,
- internet tour guide,
- it becomes self-aware at 2.14am,
- it came from the intarweb,
- live from my pants!,
- my common sense is tingling,
- my god it's full of lol,
- plague on both your houses!,
- practicando the parlez-vous,
- salute some shorts,
- shaking my tiny fists,
- squirrel bait!,
- the great unhip,
- the man is a christmas miracle,
- they've gone to plaid!,
- this is why we can't have nice things,
- wheel of morality turn turn turn,
- why did it have to be snakes?,
- wisdom of the mokie
They're fluent in Google Translate
The old joke is that Livejournal users hate Livejournal.
Most of it isn't really a Livejournal thing, but an Internet thing: once a website reaches a certain size, long-time users begin to reject all change to it. Not just the big stupid changes to functionality that break the way they've always used the site, either--even small, trivial changes get blown out of proportion. Every foaming-mad comment is really the user saying, "This is to please those new people, isn't it? What about me? I was here first!" It's not so much a rejection of change as it is a rejection of that loss of insider status.
But anyway.
What about this phenomenon at LJ makes it seem so silly?
How about a comment thread where an admin essentially reassures a Russian-speaking user that they can ask questions in their native tongue and be understood, and the English-speaking users wig out and accuse the admin of attacking the user for not asking questions in Russian?
Most of it isn't really a Livejournal thing, but an Internet thing: once a website reaches a certain size, long-time users begin to reject all change to it. Not just the big stupid changes to functionality that break the way they've always used the site, either--even small, trivial changes get blown out of proportion. Every foaming-mad comment is really the user saying, "This is to please those new people, isn't it? What about me? I was here first!" It's not so much a rejection of change as it is a rejection of that loss of insider status.
But anyway.
What about this phenomenon at LJ makes it seem so silly?
How about a comment thread where an admin essentially reassures a Russian-speaking user that they can ask questions in their native tongue and be understood, and the English-speaking users wig out and accuse the admin of attacking the user for not asking questions in Russian?